Buggy-shaft



(No Model-) v H. H. RICHARDS.

BUGGY SHAFT.

Patented Dec. 13,1881.

WITNESSES ATTORNEYS,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HEZEKIAH H. RICHARDS, OF RAOINE, WISCONSIN.

BUGGY-SHAFT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 250,970, dated December 13, 1881.

Application filed October 1, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, H. H. RICHARDS, a citizen of the United States, a resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of Wisconsin, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Buggy-Shafts; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a bottom view of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through one of the shafts. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of the same, and Figs. 4. and 5 are detail views of the device separated.

This invention has relation to buggy-shafts; and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement, with the shafts and tenonless crossbar, of the metallic sleeve provided with clamping-lugs; also, in the metallic extension of the shaft, havingthethill-eye cast separately therefrom and bolted thereto, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

Referring by letters to the accompanying drawings, A A designate the wooden shafts, of ordinary construction, except that no mortises are provided for the usual tenons on the crossbar. The cross-bar B is of wood, and is tenonless.

The shaft-irons and cross-bar sleeves are cast in one piece, except the thill-eye U and its connecting-arm D, which are cast in one piece separately, and afterward bolted to the under face of the curved shaft-iron, as shown. The portions or sleeves E are open at their lower sides, except at their forward ends,where lugs F F are provided, and are bent inwardly under the shafts A A, so as to nearly encircle them at these points. The rear ends of the portion (No model.)

E are bolted to the wooden shafts, as shown. The sleeves G extend at right angles from the sleeves E along the tenonless cross-bar B, and are open on their under faces, except at their inner ends, at which points lugs or projections I I are bent inwardly and under the cross-bar to encircle it, as shown. By this construction tenons and mortises are dispensed with, and the shafts and bar are thereby rendered stronger, as the full strength of the wood is retained.

The thill-eye O is cast upon a curved arm, D, curved to fit the under face of the extension L, and is bolted thereto, as shown, in order that when the thill-eye becomes worn by use this portion may be removed and replaced, thereby lessening the expense of repairing the shafts. 4

The advantages, among others, of this construction are that the wooden portions of the shafts are not weakened by tenons and mortises, and the thill-eyes, when worn, may be cheaply and readily replaced.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In buggy-shafts, the combination, with the shafts A A and tenonless cross-bar, of the metallic sleeves E, provided with the encircling lugs F F and I I, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

2. In buggy-shafts, the metallic extension L, in combination with the arm D, having the thill-eye O, the extension and arm being cast separately and bolted together, substantially as and for the purposes specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

HEZEKIAH H. RICHARDS.

Witnesses:

HENRY W. HURLBUT, J omv ARMSTRONG. 

